Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
Where Cresheim Creek drops into the Wissahickon gorge sits a deep green pool the Lenape held as a place where the spirit worlds met, the good above and the evil below. Generations of Philadelphians have leaped from its cliffs despite the law and the danger, and the old stories say the water has no true bottom. A real, beautiful, dangerous spot deep in the city’s wild park.
Cresheim Creek at the Wissahickon, Philadelphia (PA). Source: Lenape legend on a real gorge pool; cliff-jumping is illegal and has killed. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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